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Criss Angel Mentalism
2008-04-23 21:20:00 This is one of many Criss Angel mentalism. A book is randomly selected by a woman and then a word is freely picked from the selected book. Criss Angel reads the mind of a woman and guesses the word she picked!
David Blaine?s Riffle Mind Reading Trick Revealed
2007-12-30 20:50:00 This is a kind of mind reading trick using cards performed by David Blaine on his TV specials. This trick requires some easy setup for the gimmick but the effect is fantastic! The explanation below. The Effect A deck of cards is been riffled through and the spectator is ask to remember any one card that he/she ...
Fundamentalism, psychotropic drugs and mass murder
2007-12-13 16:47:00 An interesting discussion has begun in response to my post about the shootings in Colorado. Julie of Shanan Trail brought up a question about how Christians in particular view mental illness in light of her experience with her daughter. What I have found in the homeschooling and Christian community is almost a denial that mental ...
Bible Translation & Fundamentalism
2007-12-11 23:42:00 From livescience.com:The translation of the Bible into English marked the birth of religious fundamentalism in medieval times, as well as the persecution that often comes with radical adherence in any era, according to a new book.The 16th-century English Reformation, the historic period during which the Scriptures first became widely available in a common tongue, is often hailed by scholars as a moment of liberation for the general public, as it no longer needed to rely solely on the clergy to interpret the verses.Yup.. all those English speaking peasants in the 100s & 200s living in the Middle East had to rely on the big bad Catholic Church to dictate what the Scriptures said. And how foolish of Jerome to translate the Bible into Latin when the common language in the Roman empire during the 3rd, 4th and 5th centuries was Swahili.Although there are some valid points in this article, I simply had to take issue with this (though it might be true depending on how you read it, it'...
Barroso warns against "climate fundamentalism" before Bali
2007-11-25 14:10:00 EU Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso has called for the use of modern technology to counter global warming and warned against 'fundamentalism' on climate issues, in an interview with a mass-circulation German newspaper published on Sunday. 'It is important to use energy sparingly. Thanks to modern technology, saving energy does not automatically doing without modern comforts,' he told the Bild newspaper. 'We don't want to go back to the Middle Ages. We want further growth. People should be able to continue to travel in future,' Barroso said days ahead of the United Nations Climate Conference in Bali. 'We need to avoid all fundamentalism on climate issues,' he said. Instructing people how to live in private could lead to 'our society taking on totalitarian characteristics.' Turning to the current high prices of oil and gas, Barroso said they could provide the impetus for Europe to promote a 'carbon-poor economy.' Indonesia News Blog: http://indosnesos.blog...
Barroso warns against "climate fundamentalism" before Bali
2007-11-25 14:10:00 EU Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso has called for the use of modern technology to counter global warming and warned against 'fundamentalism' on climate issues, in an interview with a mass-circulation German newspaper published on Sunday. 'It is important to use energy sparingly. Thanks to modern technology, saving energy does not automatically doing without modern comforts,' he told the Bild newspaper. 'We don't want to go back to the Middle Ages. We want further growth. People should be able to continue to travel in future,' Barroso said days ahead of the United Nations Climate Conference in Bali. 'We need to avoid all fundamentalism on climate issues,' he said. Instructing people how to live in private could lead to 'our society taking on totalitarian characteristics.' Turning to the current high prices of oil and gas, Barroso said they could provide the impetus for Europe to promote a 'carbon-poor economy.' Indonesia News Blog: http://indosnesos.blog...
Stand Up, Be Counted - Countering Fundamentalism In Our Faith
2007-11-22 11:03:00 Yesterday I found, in my in-box an invitation to participate in something called the "Clergy Letter Project". After doing some digging I thought it was worth endorsing and sharing. The project is designed to counter the frightfully alarming growth of "Christian" fundamentalists attempting to impose variations of creationism upon us. Since our OC/IC heritage emerged in part supporting developments in modern scholarship I think it's a good cause and encourage everyone to check out the site and see how your local community can join the campaign.My local London community benefits from having a Scientist - I think we'll put together a video for Evolution Weekend 2008.On a lighter note - You may remember some time ago I posted on the opening of the Creation Museum in Petersburg KY - if you need a laugh, John Spalding's article is well worth the read.
By: Bozhe!
Holding on to the Cultural Norms of a Bygone Era: A Look at Fundamentalism?
2007-11-21 19:28:00 Hardly anyone today would consider the wearing of pants by women to be a breach of decency or a sign of rebellion against the God-given roles of manhood & womanhood. This is the 21st century, women have been liberated, and times have certainly changed, haven’t they? The Fundamentalist Position Yet for many sincere and well-meaning Christian ...
In Praise of Fundamentalism
2007-11-21 19:11:00 "Fundamentalist" has become such a dirty word these days. Let me first say something perhaps a bit controversial. There will be a thousand fundamentalists in Heaven per every one progressive. Or in other words, how much better to be a fundamentalist than to be a progressive Catholic or mainstream evangelical.I've been exposed to quite a bit of fundamentalism. To the evangelical mainstreams at my work, the denomination I grew up in (PCA) would be considered fundamentalist-right wing. In fact, one referred to the OPC as a “scary” denomination. That is scary. I have a number of relatives who would be unhesitant in labeling themselves ‘fundamentalist’. I have more in common with them than with dissenting Catholics. I have more respect for the simpleton thumping his bible and saying that Jesus is coming soon to rapture all the Christians than for the Jesuit theologian claiming that the greatest problem we face today is something that could be solved in the political aren...
Some Thoughts on Fundamentalism
2007-11-20 17:35:00 But then I sigh and, with a piece of scripture,Tell them that God bids us do good for evil;And thus I clothe my naked villainyWith odd old ends stol'n forth of Holy Writ,And seem a saint when most I play the devil.Shakespeare, Richard IIIIn an age in which economists take for granted that people equate well-being with consumption, increasing numbers of people seem willing to trade certain freedoms and material comforts for a sense of immutable order and the rapture of faith.Eugene Linden, The Future in Plain SightMere anarchy is loosed upon the world,The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhereThe ceremony of innocence is drowned;The best lack all conviction, while the worstAre full of passionate intensity.Surely some revelation is at hand;Surely the Second Coming is at hand.The Second Coming! Hardly are those words outWhen a vast image out of Spiritus MundiTroubles my sight: somewhere in the sands of the desertA shape with lion body and the head of a man,A gaze blank and pitil...
Apuntes sobre autonoma, tierra y fundamentalismos.
2007-11-16 22:56:00 Por: Anbal Jerez Lezana Ciudadano militante Mas all de comprender y apoyar el valor de una gestin administrativa autnoma de competencias en el territorio con el objetivo de una gestin publica del desarrollo mas democrtica, eficiente, equitativa y transparente, -ante la beligerancia de los representantes del poder patronal local de Santa Cruz (hoy sin presencia en el poder estatal nacional)-
By: Bolivia en blogs
Vaclav Klaus: Environmentalism is an ideology like Soviet Communism
2007-11-08 23:20:00 Last night I attended a talk at Chatham House where His Excellency Vaclav Klaus, the President of the Czech Republic, faced-off with Professor Robert Watson of the UK government’s Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. I, like everyone in the room, walked in with a pretty fixed set of ideas, none of which ...
By: Carson's Post
"Conservation and environmentalism are not hobbies; they are survival tacti
2007-11-07 05:37:00 “Conservation and environmentalism are not hobbies; they are survival tactics. America invented conservation; we launched the environmental movement. Now we need a stronger ethic, one woven in more effective ways from science and poetry. The foundation of it all will be the recognition that humanity was born within the biosphere, and that we are a biological species in a biological world.” - Edward O. Wilson, "Manifest Ecology," in "The American Idea," The Atlantic, Nov. 2007, p. 30.
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Indonesia: 'Philosophy can defeat Islamic fundamentalism'
2007-10-18 15:41:00 One of Indonesia?s leading advocates of inter-religious dialogue has singled out philosophy and humanitarian studies as the best way to fight rising Islamic fundamentalism.Catholic priest, and leading academic Franz Magnis-Suseno, said it is vital to include Muslims in the philosophical debate, because it will make them see Islam in a different light. ?We need people who can think critically and all-embracingly ? in short, we need philosophers,? he told the Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN). The German-born cleric added: ?It is a matter of having the courage to learn how to think.? A long-standing Indonesian citizen, he teaches philosophy at the Catholic University of Jakarta.Magnis-Suseno claimed many Muslims who study natural sciences tend to develop an inferiority complex, and often develop fundamentalist views in reaction to the perceived superiority of the Western world.?But Muslims who study philosophy and the humanities tend to have a broader outlook,? he said,...
A New Environmentalism?
2007-10-17 19:01:00 As you probably know by now, Al Gore won the Nobel Peace Prize last week, sharing the medal and the money with the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change. This seems to have triggered some new press for consideration of the idea of what it means to be an environmentalist. Though few dispute the idea that concern ...
Oversimplifying Environmentalism
2007-10-10 00:00:00 [ Comments: 0 ] - To many people, the entire universe of environmentalism, and saving the planet boils down to one chemical, carbon. Unfortunately, that really doesn't begin to encompass the complexity of our environment. Our environment is affected by a large number of parameters, ranging from insolation (sunlig...
By: All That's Evil
Neuroscience & Religious Fundamentalism
2007-10-07 22:58:00 “Could this same logic begin to offer some insight into why, today, some people seem unwilling to break free from certain beliefs or ideologies which are contrary to sound science, or worse, lead to terrible acts of inhumanity? Especially when those beliefs stem from an unconditional adherence to religious fundamentalism? While there have been many ...
By: Bannaga
A Manifesto For A New Environmentalism
2007-09-25 04:49:00 Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth, like Silent Spring, was considered powerful because it marshaled the facts into an effective (read: apocalyptic) story. But, ironically, for more than seven years, research that environmentalists have privately conducted on attitudes toward global warming has found the opposite: Cautionary tales and narratives of eco-apocalypse tend to provoke fatalism, conservatism, and ...
Iranian Fundamentalism and American Imperialism Face Off At Columbia
2007-09-25 04:19:00 The President of Iranpaid a visit toColumbia University school of International studies and was berated by the UniversityPresidentLee Bollinger during the introduction. While I grant you much of President Bolinger’s prepared aspersions were accurate and needed to be said.Academic tradition dictates you wait till your guest is welcomed to the forumbefore you begin denouncing the ideas, ...
Tomdispatch Interview: James Carroll, American Fundamentalisms
2007-09-18 16:39:00 by Tom Engelhardt [Note to Atlantic Free Press Readers: After a long break, this is the thirteenth in a series of interviews at the site. The previous twelve were collected in the book Mission Unaccomplished: Tomdispatch Interviews with American Iconoclasts and Dissenters.] American Exceptionalism Meets Team Jesus - A Tomdispatch Interview with James Carroll He's a man who knows something about the dangers of mixing religious fervor, war, and the crusading spirit, a subject he dealt with eloquently in his book Constantine's Sword: The Church and the Jews. A former Catholic priest turned antiwar activist in the Vietnam era, James Carroll also wrote a moving memoir about his relationship to his father, the founding director of the Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency. Carroll essentially grew up in that five-sided monument to American imperial power. For him, as a boy, the Pentagon was "the largest playhouse in the world" and he can still remember ...
Fondamentalismo repressivo
2007-09-10 20:46:00 Articolo sul sito di Focus on the family (http://www.family.org/), organizzazione cristiana no profit con piu' di 1.300 dipendenti, fondata nel 1977 da James Dobson e dedicata a nutrire e difendere le famiglie nel mondo .Titolo: Come un marito deve affrontare la remissivita' della propria moglie , ovvero come descrivere in un linguaggio affabile e vago come un uomo dovrebbe amorevolmente inquadrare la propria donna . Una moglie trova difficile affidare al marito le redini della propria vita se non e' certa che egli abbia davvero a cuore il loro futuro. La donna trovera' complicato seguirne le decisioni se l' uomo si rifiuta di tenerne in considerazione i pensieri, i sentimenti e i punti di vista. ... Se vi sembra che vostra moglie non sia remissiva, pregate a lungo affinche la donna abbia un cuore sottomesso per prima cosa a Dio e poi a voi. Poi chiedete a Dio di aiutarvi ad amarla nel modo in cui Egli la ama. Vi garantisco che vedrete il suo livello di sott...
By: Teneraerbetta
The Child in Religious Fundamentalism
2007-09-02 20:09:00 In this day and age when many of us unwillingly are being drawn into a struggle between good and evil in a manufactured clash of civilizations, it is time to ask ourselves; how could this happen? How could a minority of fundamentalist hijack the future for all of us? More: continued here
Mentalisme - Deviner le nombre
2007-08-31 01:41:00 Voici un tour de mentalisme très intéressant et facile à performer. Celui-ci était performé à l'origine par David Copperfield. Le performeur prétend écrire sa prédiction sur une feuille qu'il insère dans une enveloppe. Sans être manipuler par celui-ci, l'enveloppe contient exactement le nombre du spectateur!Que pensez-vous de ce tour?Laisser moi savoir vos commentaires!
US incrementalism ? a substitute for meaningful change
2007-08-30 22:58:00 There is no better example of US incrementalism as a substitute for real change than what each of the presidential candidates plans to deal with the health care crisis ? if 47 million uninsured can be called a crisis. With a tweak and a nudge, a child here and an adult there may be added to the insurance roll but, of course, the systemic problem of high deductibles and limited coverage remains steadfastly in place, as steadfast as the gross and rising profits to the HMOs. Over time a system can become so sick it can no longer be medicated, it must be euthanasia-ed and replaced. That's what Michael Moore is saying in Sicko, but of course his plan calls for the active engagement of government at a time when the US government is perceived as the institution that dealt with Katrina, which is to say an institution that epitomizes dysfunction. What a mess. How did things get so bad? The podcast at Open Source entitled The Issue is Empire looks at contemporary America and its recen...
By: Carson's Post
US incrementalism ? a substitute for meaningful change
2007-08-30 22:58:00 There is no better example of US incrementalism as a substitute for real change than what each of the presidential candidates plans to deal with the health care crisis ? if 47 million uninsured can be called a crisis. With a tweak and a nudge, a child here and an adult there may be added to the insurance roll but, of course, the systemic problem of high deductibles and limited coverage remains steadfastly in place, as steadfast as the gross and rising profits to the HMOs. Over time a system can become so sick it can no longer be medicated, it must be euthanasia-ed and replaced. That's what Michael Moore is saying in Sicko, but of course his plan calls for the active engagement of government at a time when the US government is perceived as the institution that dealt with Katrina, which is to say an institution that epitomizes dysfunction. What a mess. How did things get so bad? The podcast at Open Source entitled The Issue is Empire looks at contemporary America and its recen...
By: Carson's Post
Environmentalism and the Global Warming Religion: An Agent of the Catholic
2007-08-30 22:25:00 I argued a while back that Global Warming is clearly a religion. The only difference is that they pay for their sins with carbon credits, buying hybrids, and using one strip of toilet paper. Now it appears that actual religions are relieving the guilt of environmental heathens too. Of all organizations, the Roman Catholic Church is at hand with a new line in ?green confessions? to help eco-sinners find forgiveness.?Dom Anthony Sutch, the Benedictine monk who resigned as head of Downside School to become a parish priest in Suffolk, will be at the county?s Waveney Greenpeace festival this weekend to hear eco-confessions in what is thought to be the first dedicated confessional booth of its kind.? From what we are told, a new poll for Norwich Union found that, ?Nine out of ten people tell little green lies about how much they recycle and how little they consume, according to a recent survey.? I predict that if they surveyed smug celebrities like Al Gore, John Edwards, Leonardo DiC...
Dutch government to spend ?28 million combating Islamic fundamentalism and
2007-08-29 06:20:00 The goal is not to combat extremist groups ? a job for law enforcement and intelligence agencies ? but to prevent them from forming in the first place.
Giulio Mozzi: menzogne e fondamentalismi
2007-08-28 17:40:00 menzogne e fondamentalismi mozziani Interessante, Iannozzi. Ogniqualvolta ti si fanno delle domande che richiedono il possesso di un'informazione vero, o l'impegno di un neurone o due, vuoi chiudere la conversazione. 28/08/2007 - Giulio Mozzi Pubblicato da kinglear | Commenti | Segnala &-nbsp; &n-bsp; &nb-sp; &nbs-p;
Do you want the "Divine a Memory" Mentalism Trick posted here?
2007-08-25 17:04:00 Will be revealed after 300 yes answers! Divine a Memory You will ask your friend to...
By: Dreamers
Environmentalism Hurts America
2007-08-16 17:00:00 [CDATA[ Discusses the insurmountable danger the environmentalist agenda poses for the American economy. ]]
Derren Brown : Illusion et Mentalisme
2007-08-15 06:47:00 Biographie:Derren Brown est né le 27 février 1971. Il est un célèbre illusioniste et mentaliste connu notamment pour ses shows sur la chaîne britannique Channel 4. Ses spectacles, ''Mind Control'' et ''Trick of the Mind'' sont basés sur une combinaison de manipulation mentale, de suggestion et d'hypnose, donnant souvent des résultats très spectaculaires.Démonstration de mentalisme:Lors du 5 octobre, Derren Brown joue à la roulette russe en direct sur Channel 4. Un volontaire, choisi lors de l'émission parmi 12 000 candidats, fut chargé de placer une balle dans un barillet et revolver dissimulé par un cache numéroté de 1 à 6. Ensuite, on lui demanda de compter jusqu'à six avant de quitter la salle. Brown prit alors le revolver, l'appuya sur sa tempe, pressa la gâchette pour les numéros 3 et 4 puis détourna l'arme de lui et pressa de nouveau la gâchette pour le numéro 5. L'arme ne fit pas feu. Brown reposa le révolver, sembla hésiter en silence pe...
Derren Brown : Illusion et Mentalisme
2007-08-15 06:47:00 Biographie:Derren Brown est né le 27 février 1971. Il est un célèbre illusioniste et mentaliste connu notamment pour ses shows sur la chaîne britannique Channel 4. Ses spectacles, ''Mind Control'' et ''Trick of the Mind'' sont basés sur une combinaison de manipulation mentale, de suggestion et d'hypnose, donnant souvent des résultats très spectaculaires.Démonstration de mentalisme:Lors du 5 octobre, Derren Brown joue à la roulette russe en direct sur Channel 4. Un volontaire, choisi lors de l'émission parmi 12 000 candidats, fut chargé de placer une balle dans un barillet et revolver dissimulé par un cache numéroté de 1 à 6. Ensuite, on lui demanda de compter jusqu'à six avant de quitter la salle. Brown prit alors le revolver, l'appuya sur sa tempe, pressa la gâchette pour les numéros 3 et 4 puis détourna l'arme de lui et pressa de nouveau la gâchette pour le numéro 5. L'arme ne fit pas feu. Brown reposa le révolver, sembla hésiter en silence pe...
Presbyterians on Fundamentalism
2007-08-06 22:59:00 Some of you may have missed this. Rick Phillips and Carl Trueman commented on BJU-style fundamentalism on Reformation 21’s blog [Phillips’ initial post, clarification#1, clarification #2, Trueman’s post, Phillips’ response — all these are quite brief, BTW]. Sean Lucas, of Covenant Theological Seminary, followed up with some reflections of his own [post 1, ...
Environmentalism for Billionaires
2007-08-06 18:15:00 by Glenn Hurowitz The American Prospect Lately, I’ve been inundated with phone calls from venture capitalists, private equity guys, and hedge fundistas. They’re coming to me because I’m their environmentalist friend and they all want to know one thing: how they can make a buck off the surge in interest in combating global warming…. ….But you don’t have ...
By: Current Era Blog
Who Is the True Godfather of Islamic Fundamentalism?
2007-07-30 14:24:00 The next time you hear an uninformed person say we have a problem with fundamentalist Islam because of America?s foreign policy or the Iraq War or Muslim poverty, show them this article. FSM Contributing Editor Adrian Morgan produces another must read for the well informed. Analysts and commentators on Islamism often point to two individuals ...
By: 1913 Intel
Pocketbook Environmentalism
2007-07-30 14:15:00 I?ve mentioned before that the home page on Mr. Bookworm?s browser is the New York Times, which very much affects his outlook on things. I?ve therefore been unsurprised that, in the past year or so, my husband has been mouthing a lot of ?green? stuff. ?Turn off the lights, to help ...
By: Webloggin
?Radical Evironmentalism Failed?
2007-07-27 17:08:00 Remnants of the radical Earth Liberation Front stood before a federal judge. More than a decade after they began setting fires across the West. One by one, they waited to hear her decide: Had they committed acts of domestic terrorism?
By: Gun News
Red, Green & Blue: Is it Time for a "New" Environmentalism?
2007-07-24 20:30:00 The thunder here rolled for hours and hours before something long-absent in my neck of the woods finally arrived: rain. That’s when I had an epiphany. It’s come to this, I realized: I am...
By: Green Options
Cleantech Adoption & Worst-Case Environmentalism
2007-07-17 03:20:00 There's a slice of the environmental movement that believes, as many people before have believed with Mutual Assured (Nuclear) Destruction, and Y2k, and other assorted potential disasters that the disasters are not potential, but assured. They feel they're being realistic in their forecasts, at their most optimistic when they say that humanity may have a hope of survival. It's possible that they're right, and it's certain that they're saying something crucial about our current rates of consumption and so on. The problem is, their message is the absolute opposite of attractive. The worst-case scenarios might make for motivated activism out of a small segment of the population, and in one sense, that worked quite well for Y2k. What could have been disastrous was mitigated into nothingness by correct action on the part of the people in a position to make changes. What was different, of course, about Y2k is that there would be almost zero public impact, unless the effort...
Responding to Error: A Comparison Study between Fundamentalism and Hyperfun
2007-07-13 21:33:00 Recently, I was startled by a sharp contrast over how 2 different men responded to error. These two responses provide a comparison study which illustrates just why fundamentalism (IFB) and hyperfundamentalism (IFBx) should be distinguished. Definitions Before we move to the study, we should pause and provide some definitions for those who may be unfamiliar with ...
Live Earth Environmentalism- The new Religion?
2007-07-07 22:42:00 Stars being serious is always a hilarious sight to behold, but I won't bother pointing out their silliness since nobody takes them seriously. After reading a couple of stories on the concert, however, I couldn't help but notice the concert resembling some kind of religious event. Consider: Like Victorians who fretted about exposing the legs of a piano lest somebody get a sexual thought in their head, so rock stars succumb to an acute attack of enviro-scruples for the day of the Live Earth concert: To maintain its green integrity, Live Earth is implementing "green event guidelines" for its concerts. They are: All electricity powering the shows will be from renewable sources Concessionaires will be encouraged to use suppliers of biodegradable plastics Production lighting will include the use of LED bulbs Staff and artist air travel will be offset through carbon credits Ground travel will be by hybrid or high-efficiency vehicles where possible Henry IV begged the Pope to...
By: Asymmetric
Environmentalism: the new death cult?
2007-07-03 20:39:00 source: GuardianThe New Atheists are a gaggle of writers wielding a literary cudgel against religion. From Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion to Christopher Hitchens' God Is Not Great, it has become positively fashionable to be a member of the anti-God squad and to ridicule the religious.Fair enough. I'm as atheistic as they come, so I won't be shedding a tear for Christianity, Islam, Judaism or the other superstitious sects that now find themselves under attack by intellectuals. And yet, I can't help feeling that the new atheists are rather spectacularly missing the point.They are going after religions which, in the west at least, are in terminal decline, and whose influence is miniscule bordering on non-existent. At the same time, these atheists tend to buy into the cult of environmentalism, which is rehabilitating old religious pieties with a dangerously dramatic success rate.Forget fundamentalist Christianity or Islam: environmentalism is by far the most influential death cu...
The First Church of Environmentalism.
2007-05-30 03:47:00 Are things in nature fragile? Of course. Are we part of nature? Surely. Are we a part of the ecosystem? Naturally. Is the ecosystem fragile? Not hardly - the ecosystem is self-healing. However, there is a large movement in western cultures bent on defending Mother Earth - with great intentions, and little perspective… the ...
Where Are PC(USA) Leaders Combatting Fundamentalism in our Midst?
2007-05-25 17:13:00 When will the PC(USA) ever come to terms with the grave damage that has been done both to itself and to this country by fundamentalism? Both our church and the federal government have been radically changed, and not for the better of their missions, by the radical far right. Former President Carter and others have named and protested that radical change in government. Where is the ecclesiastical leadership (as distinct from theological and academic challenge) that does the same for the ecumenical Church?Given that fundamentalism continues to be presented as “Christian,” even though it has launched and over decades has sustained effective attacks on much that the Christian faith affirms, the churches bear the greater responsibility for not having stopped the progress of fundamentalism, not even when the distinctions began to blur between evangelical and fundamentalist groups, goals, and tenets.When Karl Barth came to this country in 1962 and gave his lectures under the title “E...
Red Green and Blue: Environmentalism vs. Humanitarianism
2007-05-15 15:14:00 Editor's note: In the newest edition of Red, Green and Blue, writers Jimmy Hogan and Shirley Siluk Gregory take a look at the "big issue" of environmentalism vs. humanitarianism. Jimmy: I was thinking the other day, and it struck me that I don?t have a very well-formed stand on the distinction between environmental and humanistic issues. Is there a point where being green comes at the expense of human welfare? The statement seems a contradiction, but in the future, as in the past, we will discuss and debate issues relating to this fundamental choice. Is it morally wrong to use food-stuff like corn and soy in biofuels while other people around the world are starving? Do our lofty environmental goals sometimes have negative unintended consequences? Rachel Carson?s Silent Spring sparked a major environmental movement, but at the same time has contributed to increasing malaria deaths in the developing world because many countries cannot afford the more expensive al...
By: Green Options
Carol Hoenig: The Evils of Radical Fundamentalism
2007-05-13 13:00:00 Author: Carol Hoenigvia www.huffingtonpost.com For the last several years, a network of radical fundamentalists has wreaked havoc on the American way of life. No, I’m not talking about al Qaeda, but rather the fundamental Christians who believe they have been ordained by a higher power to right what they believe is wrong with America. James Dobson, Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson and their powerful, prosperous Christian organizations, have exchanged democracy for theocracy and it hasn’t been working out too well for anyone. This has become all too apparent in light of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’s mess. One of the most profound revelations in the investigation is how many people in the present administration are from Pat Robertson’s Regent University School of Law. According to The Boston Globe, graduates of the law school have been among the most influential of the more than 150 Regent University alumni hired to federal government positions since Preside...
By: Munaeem's Blog
Will Turkey return to Islamic fundamentalism?
2007-05-02 19:06:00 Linda Michaud-Emin asks this in the Jerusalem Post:Turkey, the world's prime example of a mainly Muslim country as a secular democratic state, may be losing that status. For the first time, a member of an Islamic party stands poised to win the presidency. And the upcoming parliamentary elections are likely to result in yet another victory for the Islamic-oriented government.The ruling Justice and Development Party, led by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has selected the party's No. 2 leader, Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul, as its candidate for the presidency. Secularists fear this may be the beginning of the end for the secular nature of the republic, as established by president Mustafa Kemal Ataturk more than 80 years ago.While Turkey has twice had a prime minister from an Islamic party, the president is looked on as a bulwark of the secular system. The president plays an important role in Turkey. He appoints the prime minister, the military's chief of staff, university rect...
By: Tel-Chai Nation
Fundamentalism
2007-04-29 09:08:00 When other religions were established then I'm not sure they anticipated the movement we call fundamentalists today. No matter how big the Church of Integrity becomes then we hope that our followers will not become fundamentalists. Never ever shall you read through our teachings and try to twist them and turn into something bad and then point to our teachings as some sort of proof. Everything we teach requires you to use your best judgment and it requires you to think. Never ever follow someone blindly. Our fundamental teaching, "Do what is right", forces you to think independently and that is what we want to teach you, think for yourself and question the world around you. Never think that the religion is merely based on what we write here on the blog, different interpretations are good for discussion but should never divide our followers. Those that interpret our statements differently than you are not bad and should not be persecuted for thinking on their own. We hope that the co... |
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